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Wednesday, 23 May 2012

TV Networks MUTE on Biggest Religious Lawsuit in History

According to MRC/NewBusters:

TV networks are deliberately censoring

the biggest religious lawsuit in history ...

Alexandria, VA – Nine prominent Catholic leaders have joined the Media Research Center to voice outrage over the broadcast networks deliberately withholding news of the momentous 43 Catholic entities suing the Obama administration for violating their religious freedoms. They represent major organizations including the Acton Institute, Cardinal Newman Society, SBA List, the Catholic League and others. More are coming in every hour.

There are 60 million Catholics in the US. The Catholic vote will be the most important swing vote this year. So it’s not just a major policy issue, it is one with massive political implications. Yet, 19 seconds of news coverage remains the only attention given by the evening broadcast networks.

Two days after news broke, the tally is:

- ABC World News – ZERO seconds of coverage. But, last night there was time for a full report on sleep apnea and Katie Couric discussing how she met Queen Elizabeth; how she wore a peach coat and "a lovely peach hat."

- NBC Nightly News – ZERO seconds of coverage. But last night there was time to squeeze in a story on a new computer app that shows America's eating habits, "graphic evidence" of how we eat badly late at night.

- CBS Evening News – a brief 19 seconds of coverage on Monday, the evening the lawsuit became public. ZERO coverage last night. But there was time in the broadcast for a Cincinnati Reds baseball fan lucky enough to catch two home runs in left field.

“The intentional, deafening silence continues,” stated Brent Bozell, MRC President, “and we are not the only ones concerned. This deliberate censorship must come to an end.”

Comments

Some years ago, Phillip Rieff's brilliant book, "The Triumph of the Therapeutic," explained how traditional morality and religion had been undermined by the relentless psychologizing of just about everything; nowadays, for example, in confronting terrorism, we are more likely to engage in psychobabble about the motivations of the terrorists than in serious discussions of good and evil. It wouldn't surprise me if, one of these days, someone were to write a book titled "The Triumph of the Trivial" -- which would explain how some of the major institutions of our society came to displace serious discussion of serious matters with trifles, twaddle, and fiddle-faddle. Obviously, the answer has something to do with politics. But it also, I suspect, has something to do with the contempt the American elite holds for the American people. The underlying assumption of the mainstream media -- which must attract an audience to stay alive -- is that ordinary Americans just aren't smart enough to tune in to hear serious reporting on serious topics. What they will tune in to hear -- so goes the assumption -- is the frivolous, the frothy, and the flimsy -- like the story about Queen Elizabeth's "lovely peach hat." Small wonder Obama thinks he can lie and lie to the American people and get away with it; like his fellow Lefties in the elite that now dominates our politics and our media, he believes we are so besotted with therapeutic psychobabble and trivial folderol that we will believe anything. Let's hope that, come November, he and his fellow elitists get their comeuppance.